Unwrapping Technology Standards

The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are globally accepted standards for the learning, teaching, and leadership of our digital era (International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE], 2012). NETS was developed from educators’ best practices information. Their goals and benefits span a wide range of areas from improving higher-order thinking skills and preparing students to be competitive in a global job market, to developing student-centered online learning experiences and promoting “systemic change in our schools to create digital places of learning” (ISTE, 2012). There is a gamut of resources available to teachers at all levels which facilitate NETS goals. The ISTE website offers free resources such as computational thinking resources, NETS resources, NETS wiki, and podcasts. For those who are members of ISTE, they have free access to additional links such as Passion-Based Learning Lesson Plans iBook, a special interest group content library, and special interest group memberships. The site also offers books, leadership forums, magazines and journals as well as webinars at affordable prices. The ISTE website also offers a free document titled Profiles for Technology (ICT) Literate Students (2007b). This document breaks down learning profiles into four grade ranges: PK-2nd, grades 3rd-5th, 6th-8th, and 9th-12th (ISTE, 2007b). As noted in the Profiles document, the profiles are “indicators of achievement at certain stages” (ISTE, p.1, 2007b) of a child’s technological literacy education. Profiles provides educators a guideline of what students should already know and what they must learn to prepare them for the next level of technological literacy and eventually mastery (ISTE, 2007b). For a typical 9th-12th grade high school (ages 14-18) there are ten learning activity examples listed. The majority of examples listed address two of the NETS standards for Students (NETS-S). One example of a learning activity is the designing, development,...

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Technology is important in meeting the production goals. The first question which each and every individual should ask is how to produce more from less. Technology is required for the use of, modernization and teamwork between a sciences based observation towards food production in addition to established farming methods. From the...

...EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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Truly, for educational technology ,prepares individuals by helping them acquire a deeper understanding and mastery of learning resources, messages, people, materials, devices, techniques and settings. It seek new and effective ways of organizing teaching and learning process through the best possible application of technological development.
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Teachers' overall attitudes towards technology play a vital role in adopting a set method in determining how to instruct with wireless laptops (Kervin &ump; Mantei, 2010). Alternatively, the way teachers perceive technology will hypothesize a key determinant of the nature of this quantitative, pre-experimental study. In this study, the reason why teachers do not routinely and effectively use available technology such as wireless laptops in K–12 classrooms will be examined.
To take full advantage of technology, while reducing possible drawbacks, requires matching the technology with the learning objectives (Lee, 2010). The researcher will use a pre-experimental, quantitative study, which has a cross-sectional web-based, five point Likert-scale survey entitled the Technology Attitude Scale (TAS). The TAS will be administered to collect data during the course of this study. Subsequently, the TAS questionnaire is an adapted version of Swan and Dixon’s (2006) model.
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Technology in Education
The rapid and constant pace of change in technology is creating both opportunities and challenges for schools.
The opportunities include greater access to rich, multimedia content, the increasing use of online coursetaking to offer classes not otherwise available, the widespread availability of mobile computing devices that can access the Internet, the expanding role of social networking tools for learning and professional development, and the growing interest in the power of digital games for more personalized learning.
At the same time, the pace of change creates significant challenges for schools. To begin with, schools are forever playing technological catch up as digital innovations emerge that require upgrading schools’ technological infrastructure and building new professional development programs. Some schools have been adept at keeping up with those changes, while many others are falling far behind, creating a digital divide based largely on the quality of educational technology, rather than just simple access to the Internet.
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